Going home again

John Grogan is more like Marley than he might want to believe. An affable, unassuming rabble - rouser, the author who penned a bestseller about his goofy dog gets up to some hilarious antics of his own in a new coming-of age memoir, The Longest Trip Home.Our phone call to Grogan's home office near Philadelphia interrupts the former...

When man's best friend is the world's worst dog

The memoir genre has taken a beating in recent months, with some writers accused of fudging facts or inventing events to make their life stories more salacious. But John Grogan, a columnist for the <i>Philadelphia Inquirer</i>, didn't need to create the exploits in his blockbuster memoir, <b>Marley &andamp Me</b>: the inspiration for the book, his yellow Labrador...